Biblical Hebrew Forum

[Dave Washburn <dwashbur AT nyx.net>]

On Sunday 18 September 2005 17:28, Peter Kirk wrote:
> On 18/09/2005 06:58, Vadim Cherny wrote:
> >Jack,
> >
> >You well may be right, I don't have a clue about Tagalog.
> >It could be, however, that the same bias affected its study, as was for
> >Hebrew.
> >I guess, Polynesians don't have a large body of written literature, and
> > are generally moderately educated (a guess, not an assertion), and cannot
> > very well relay to scholars and translators subtle semantical
> > differences, such as between tenses and the completion aspects. ...
>
> This guess is a racist slur. Please retract it.

Agreed.  Since Tagalog is one of the primary languages of the Phillipine 
Islands, I would hope there are at least a few educated people who speak it.  
But regardless of that, the blatant bigotry evident in the statement is more 
than a bit offensive.

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Dave Washburn
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